Considerable rumblings from Pumpkinland...
It seems that the folks in Smashing Pumpkins, whomever that may be at this hour, have quietly slipped another new track out into the ether. It's called "Superchrist" and as of now the only place to find it is on a Guitar Center compilation called Fresh Cuts Volume 2, which in and of itself is good news and bad news. The bad news is that the rest of the disc is made up of songs recorded by Guitar Center employees, but the good news... at least it's free. So, you know, you can burn the Pumpkins track to your iPod and - voila! - you've got a great new beer coaster! More on the track itself...
The first couple three minutes are all about Corgan and Chamberlain doing what they do best - rolling and tumbling drum fills crashing between waves of crushing riffs, heavier than pretty much anything they've done since the "reunion". Really this is nothing more than an excuse for wankery, but when it sounds this good - who cares? The lyrics are pretty unimportant, something about "evolution" and "disillusion" I think, but they are nothing but a placeholder between the monstrous instrumental sections. Really encouraging to hear the band cranking out some old fashioned RAWK like they haven't done in years, even if it is just tossed off on some random compilation that few people will care about. The verdict? Pretty awesome.
But if the thought of even walking into a Guitar Center makes your skin kinda crawl, you can just download the thing here:
Smashing Pumpkins - "Superchrist"
I've also heard some other encouraging news out of the Pumpkins camp, just rumors and rumblings at this point, but cause for excitement all the same. Seems like we may see the long-rumored reissues for the first three albums sometime soon, along with an official release of some of the early pre-Gish material. Consider me excited.
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